Mr. Speaker, the next petition I would like to present is with respect to safety for truck drivers. In 2020, the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators issued standard 16 with respect to entry-level training under the National Safety Code. As part of this, provinces and territories are meant to implement these, but only five have done so to date. As a result, the training requirements vary widely across the country and there is a bit of a patchwork of training requirements.
Petitioners note that nearly 2,000 Canadians are killed and 10,000 are injured in collisions involving commercial trucks, with most victims being occupants of other vehicles, and that the federal government can issue regulations to ensure more uniform road safety requirements.
Petitioners have three calls. The first is to establish a national mandatory training standard as mandated by standard 16 and implemented by all provinces through federal legislation or regulation. The second is to mandate that each province and territory be obliged to ensure that their training complies with this standard. The third is that each province and territory be obligated to oversee and enforce the universal standard for all commercial truck drivers using the roads.